for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four:

Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America: The

First Avenger, Marvel's The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a role he will

reprise in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Evans began his career on the television series

Opposite Sex and later moved to film, starring in Not Another Teen Movie, Cellular, Push,

and Puncture. He has also appeared in the films The Perfect Score, Sunshine, The Losers,

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, What's Your Number?, and The Iceman.

Early life Chris Evans was born in Boston and raised

in the town of Sudbury. His mother, Lisa, is an artistic director at the Concord Youth

Theater, and his father, Bob, is a dentist. He has two sisters, Carly, a graduate of New

York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a high school drama and English teacher,

Shanna, and a younger brother, Scott, who was featured on the ABC soap opera One Life

to Live. Their uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts Congressional district

formerly represented by Tip O'Neill. His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry.

Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He and his siblings were raised

Catholic. Career

After filming wrapped on Not Another Teen Movie, Evans landed lead roles in The Perfect

Score and Cellular, and then starred in two independent films in Chicago: Dirk Wittenborn's

Fierce People, playing the sinister Bryce, and London, playing a strung-out drug user

with relationship problems. He then played the superhero the Human Torch in the 2005

comic book adaptation Fantastic Four. Evans reprised the role of the Human Torch in the

2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. That year, he starred as engineer-turned-astronaut

Mace in Danny Boyle's science-fiction film Sunshine.

In 2008, Evans appeared in Street Kings, co-starring Keanu Reeves, and the Tennessee Williams screenplay

adaptation The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, co-starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Ellen

Burstyn. The following year he appeared in the science-fiction thriller Push, with Dakota

Fanning and Camilla Belle. Evans performed his own fight scenes, which took weeks to

film, and was bruised during filming. In 2010, he completed filming on co-directors

Mark Kassen and Adam Kassen's Puncture in Houston, Texas. The film was selected to debut

at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival as one of the Spotlight projects for the 10th anniversary

of the festival. Also that year, Evans appeared in Sylvain White's The Losers, an adaptation

of the comic-book series from the DC Comics imprint Vertigo. Evans then appeared in another

comic-book adaptation, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, where he portrayed

Lucas Lee, one of Ramona Flowers' seven exes. In 2011, Evans played the Marvel Comics character

Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger, and starred in the film What's Your

Number?, a romantic comedy co-starring Anna Faris. There were initially scheduling conflicts,

as both films were set to film in the summer of 2010. With actress Evan Rachel Wood, he

was part of a 2011 advertising campaign for the perfume Gucci Guilty, and the cologne

Guilty pour Homme. Evans had signed on to appear in multiple

films as Captain America, and first reprised the role in the 2012 film The Avengers. He

next starred opposite Michael Shannon in The Iceman, replacing James Franco, who had dropped

out. Evans wore a long wig and grew out a beard for the role. He starred in South Korean

director Bong Joon-ho's English-language film Snowpiercer.

In 2014, Evans starred in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. His upcoming films include

his directorial debut, 1:30 Train, the sequel to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and

the third Captain America film. Evans said in March 2014 that once his contract with

Marvel is up, he plans to take a break from acting to work on directing, and believes

he will be finished playing Captain America in 2017.

Personal life From 2004 to 2006, Evans dated actress Jessica

Biel. He also dated actress Minka Kelly in September 2012 after briefly dating her in

2007 but broke up again in October 2013. He is also a supporter of LGBT rights, and

practices Buddhism. Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links Chris Evans at the Internet Movie Database

Chris Evans on Twitter